Yet another step towards immortality
Mar. 14th, 2006 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bzarcherWe can now regrow nerve tissue in lab animals using nanogels.
This is a ridiculously huge medical feat, and it ought to get far more press than it is recieving, particularly in the US where I hadn't heard a peep until a friend in the UK twigged me to the article.
If this gets to human trials and is similarly successful, expect treatments for the blind and deaf in short order.
Hell, if it gets developed enough, this could be a backbone to more forms of therapy I can count, particularly if the methodology can be taken beyond nervous tissue. Regrowing damaged brain cells? Fix your weak heart muscles?
Big stuff.
This is a ridiculously huge medical feat, and it ought to get far more press than it is recieving, particularly in the US where I hadn't heard a peep until a friend in the UK twigged me to the article.
If this gets to human trials and is similarly successful, expect treatments for the blind and deaf in short order.
Hell, if it gets developed enough, this could be a backbone to more forms of therapy I can count, particularly if the methodology can be taken beyond nervous tissue. Regrowing damaged brain cells? Fix your weak heart muscles?
Big stuff.
